This.

Its sad the amount of people that cant make this logical baby step.

Just to wheel things back onto the road.

I was never asking for fully procedurally generated dungeons.

I just said randomize chest locations and door locks. It cant be that hard for a company that has been using the same game engine for almost 22 years to implement a node system to roll a spawn chance for a chest, or a door to be locked or not (with a higher chance of node spawns behind locked doors).

Hell, they could have even gone the lazy way and just copy and pasted the PoI a few times and manually changed the cosmetics/appearances.

With space and prefab buildings, they have the ultimate excuse for why every dungeon is identical (at least until you get into the underground caves…), but not every one of them should have the same dead body inthe same location in the same shower, the same succulent on the same shelf. move the body to a different location! Have a chance for a cluster of books to spawn instead of the succulent! Its a prefabricated hab structure, but that doesnt mean they come with such strict instructions as “Only succulent A on this shelf”

You know someone is gonna make a mod that generates random and unique bases from hab complex assets.

And thats exactly why Bethesda doesnt put the effort in. cause they make the game, then the modders make it good for free… Or it used to be that, now they want to charge for mods and take a cut of the profits for shit they didnt make.

They could at least make the random PoI’s interesting if there was some…randomness to them.

Like, I walk into a PoI, I already know where the chests are, the locked doors, are, where the stupid fucking corpse in the shower is, etc etc. cause I’ve ran through this PoI 20 times.

I dont know why at least the locations of chests and locked doors cant be randomized. Make things at least marginally interesting, instead of cookie cuttered to extreme.

i find it less headache to just sit in UC distrobution and fast forward 24 hours to keep reseting inventory to get all the mats I need to build, at least my starter shit.

Bethesda always advertises their “new engine”, but really it’s exactly the same engine they’ve been using since Morrowind, with minor logic improvements and updates to the graphical assets. It’s to the point where a lot of bugs have ancestry trees.

Yep. Call it Gamebryo, Call it Creation Engine, Call it what the fuck ever.

Its still NetImmerse.

They can keep slapping fresh makeup on it, and keep wraping new ducttape around it when the old stuff wears out and fails, but it’ll always be the same engine, regardless of the name changes.

They dont want to invest in making a whole new engine (which, given Bethesda, would be just as bad or worse than what they use now), and they don’t seem to want to license anyone elses engine. Which is weird, cause subsidiary studios don’t seem to have the same issue… Like, Ghostwire Tokyo is built on Unreal Engine 4.

Ah yes… forever and again, the siren song of children being used as an excuse for draconian, rights eroding legislation… its amazing how much responsibility parents have shirked to the state as they replace babysitters with cellphones and tablets.

Well, that works…but it is certainly bad design. Blah.

k…?

Exactly.

Be fully of despair and you ahve no where to go but up.

be full of hope and you have no where to go but down.

if they announce a 7700xt thats cheaper than what I just paid for my 6700xt, I dont know if I’m going to maintain my rationality.

and just to be clear, I want the midrange cards like x7xx to be more affordable, Just annoyed that this announcement came after giving up and buying a new card.

I just bought a 6700xt.

Which means you are all welcome for my heroic sacrifice that has made them announce new cards.

So, dumb question, but that picture is tiny and I cant read it.

and its not clickable so i can view a bigger version.

and if I zoom the browser in, the image stays the same size.

how is everyone else reading this damn thing?

Yep.

TVs, Fridges, Toilets, Dishwashers, Clothes Washers/Dryers, Thermostats, and a whole range of other things do not, and will never need, access to the internet.

By giving them access to the internet, you are just lighting a fuse and waiting for the bomb to go off. Maybe that bomb is personal banking details, maybe that bomb is financial in that someone cranks your AC up to 150 when you are gone for a week and come home to house full of heat damage and melt, or maybe that bomb is a 3d printer that turned on, malfunctioned, and burned your house down.

IoT is stupid.

Which, as you may note by your own word choice, isnt “making things up”

Its speculation based on new information.

He types all this out, but has the audacity to call me the dense one.

I swear to god, these linus fart huffers…

I buy it on steam, because downloading the individual game installer files is annoying, and GOG Galaxy never worked right for me on windows.

On Linux, however, Lutris has good GOG integration, so I can just log into my GOG account via Lutris and install literally every game I own (which I have like 100 on gog) without much issue now.

he said he supported unions, but doesnt want a union at his business.

he said we should call out bad companies, until its his company thats being called out.

Says he cares about employees, but ignores sexual harassment, abuse, and overworks them beyond capacity.

He says a lot of shit, until hes on the receiving end of it.

Wondering why previous employees left after the workplace is revealed to be a toxic, abusive shithole is not making things up.

Makes you wonder about Maxine leaving now.

Yep, he got caught with his manipulative word play this time by GN, but it also gives context for everything he’s said in the past and puts new light on them, because this isnt something people just wake up and decide to do one day. Its something they do their entire life.

in one of the WAN shows he went on a big handwringing tirade about how “unions means I’m a failure as an employer” with undertones of “You wouldnt want to make me a failure by unionizing, right?”

Just imagine how bad it is, behind closed doors and with the Cameras off, considering what the employees said in that LTT employee opinion video on camera, that GN repeatedly referenced, that they were over worked and didnt have time to make anything right.

And this is why Lienus hates unions so much, cause it would have held him and his company accountable for the nasty, abusive shit they do behind the scenes.

Yep, Get those for like 2 bucks at goodwill. Hell, even entire box sets.

Almost got the entire collectors edition band of brothers box set for 2 bucks at goodwill once… only reason I didnt is cause it was missing like 3 of the disks, and I didnt want to spend the rest of my life trying to hunt those 3 down.

Streaming has become cable 2.0.

It was wonderful when everything was on one, maybe two providers. Could watch everything in a very easy, very affordable way.

But everyone saw that, went “I know, I want that money!” and spent billions building their own individual infrastructures so make their own streaming services, and right around we go right back to the absolute worst days of cable and bullshit.

Only thing stopping me from saying fuck it and downloading shit I want to watch, is the fact that I no longer know what the good sites are… since I havent pirated since the heyday of the bay.

I dropped my Dell inspiron and watched it plinko its way down an entire set of stairs and still worked fine, too.

and its a (comparatively) cheap plastic crap bag.

another example of why apple laptops are so expensive.

80% of the price is to cover the R&D for fucking over the consumer.

Seriously, tying the goddamn *hall effect sensor to the system so it cant be replaced? Thats some freaking cyberpunk level corpo shitbaggery.

YEAH WELL FUCK YOU AND YOUR FACE!

I think twitter admitted, years ago, that they are heavily biased in favor of right wing conservatives, because if they made rightwingers follow the rules like everyone else, they’d have to ban the majority of them, and lose all that advertising income “look like they are specifically targeting political ideaology”

I never even got to the modding with the native version.

Yeah, but its linux version was absolute unstable dogshit that was plagued with bugs.

Meanwhile, the windows version via proton ran 3x faster, and almost crash free (and i say almost because once you get to a certain point in modding there will always be crashes)

I’ll take a windows version via proton any day of the week, if Cities:Skylines linux version is my alternative.

Thats a dumb argument, though.

phpbb is not the host or the provider. Its just something you download and install on your server, with the actual service provider (You, the owner of the server and operator of the phpbb forum) being responsible for its content and curation.

Mastadon/Twitter/social media is the host/provider/moderator.

No, cause then you end up with a case like the guy who lost 15+ years of emails, his phone number, all his photos, his contacts, and everything else he had tied to a google account, because Googles automated detection triggered on a naked photo of their baby, that they sent to the doctor during covid, that the doctor requested, about a rash on the babies diaper area… and no amount of common sense would stay their hand or reverse their ignorant judgement that this man was a child pornographer, and even called the police on him.

Yes, it will be an issue on any platform.

But how that platform deals with/fights it is what makes the platform good or bad.

Take Facebook for example in horrible… Facebook is rife with the stuff, and it regularly gets reported… and nothing happens. To the point that a Reporter once confronted them about it during an interview, and Facebook proved it did have the capability to contact law enforcement… by calling them on the reporter who showed them the evidence of it on their platform.

It took longer than I care to admit to realize this was satire.

Which says something about the world and life.

A company that has a long history of products literally catching fire/melting is not a company any reasonable person would call okayish.

Hell, just in recent history their motherboards were vaporizing copper off of AMD CPUs, and their ROG Ally is literally cooking SD cards into non-functionality.

Lets not forget that they tried to escape liability for their CPU Cooking by releasing a beta bios that cancelled your warranty if you installed it.

ASUS is a cheap, 8th tier, chinese trash tier equivalent company… and I genuinely have no idea short of mass hypnosis/drugging how they got a reputation as a quality, reputable brand.

3 long commercial breaks in a 30 minute time block, is enough to radicalize anyone, lol.

Or it has to do with ISPs being far more aggressive in sending threatening letters if you do it without burrying it behind obfuscation and encrypted vpns.

Also, people dont know what the new trustworthy sites are today, since all the ones they knew 10 years ago are probably gone.

its from Asus, its 50/50 whether you’re buying a product or a house fire.